Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Wednesday, 14 September 2022
Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine
Nitrates Derogation and Nitrates Action Programme: Discussion
Kieran O'Donnell (Limerick City, Fine Gael)
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Mr. Drennan spoke about contamination from wastewater treatment plants. Has any empirical work been done on that? If someone is contaminating groundwater, whoever it is should be held accountable for it. I have no issue with that. The question is if wastewater treatment plants are bringing up the contamination levels, has any empirical work been done on that, to Mr. Drennan's knowledge? He is saying that if we deal with all these issues over the next year or two, and we come to the directive being implemented, he believes it would then be implemented in a much fairer way. Is that a fair comment?